title: Does access to role models influence future career choice? Impact of psychiatry teaching on recently graduated doctors in the United Kingdom.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors determined who provides formal psychiatry teaching to newly-qualified doctors and whether the amount of such teaching correlates to a later career preference for psychiatry.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected on the cohort starting work in 2010 until applying to a specialty training program 16 months later. Total hours of psychiatry teaching was compared with the number choosing a residency in the same specialty.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 19 hospitals in northwest England provided teaching programs for their interns and first-year residents (U.K. foundation doctors); 15 provided information on doctors' later specialty choice. Only 2.3% of teaching was dedicated to psychiatry. Doctors led a higher proportion of medicine or surgery sessions (63%) than those on psychiatry (48%). Provision of psychiatry teaching was associated with entering psychiatry residency.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hospitals providing the most formal psychiatry training have the highest proportions matriculating into a psychiatry residency.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Collier
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moreton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D024382:Professional Role / Q000523:psychology*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D006113:United Kingdom